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Akshaj Awasthi

‘Won’t You Stay, Radhika?’: A rich tapestry of rumination on what we miss when we leave our homeland

This is Daisy Rockwell’s first published work of translation after her 2022 International Booker Prize win with Geetanjali Shree’s ‘Tomb of Sand’.

Akshaj Awasthi
· Sep 24, 2023 · 08:30 am
How Ira Mukhoty’s biography of Akbar often uses unorthodox methods to chronicle a grand life story

From unusual sources to drawing a relationship with present days, ‘Akbar: The Great Mughal’ goes where historical biographies often do not venture.

Akshaj Awasthi
· Jun 14, 2020 · 08:30 am
Lynching in India’s past: This book shows public violence is ingrained in the history of the land

Aparna Vaidik’s ‘My Son’s Inheritance’ is a reminder of a historical legitimisation of violence that is often denied.

Akshaj Awasthi
· Mar 28, 2020 · 05:30 pm